January 8,  2020

WHO  THE  HECK?

Who the heck came up with:

“This is the best pizza in the town ….

“This is the best milk shake there ….

“This is the best meringue pie there ….

“This is by far the best movie ever ….

“This is the best day of my life so far ….

“This is the best poem I ever read ….

“This is the worst I’ve ever seen you ….

“This is the worst soup I ever tasted ….

“This is the worst sermon I ever ….

“This is the worst poem I ever read ….

© Andy Costello, Reflections

January  8, 2020

Thought for Today 

“The  last  years of his life had become so precious to him that, as he said, he would willingly stand at street corners hat in hand, begging passers-by to drop their unused minutes into it.” 

John Walker, of

Bernard Berenson, 

The Bernard Berenson 

Treasury.

January 7,  2020

MOTIVE?

People judge my motive.

I hear them do this at times.

What I wish they would realize

is that life is a multi-motivated thing.

In fact, most of us don’t know

why we do what we do.

Didn’t Jesus say something

like that up there on the cross?

“Father forgive them because

they don’t know what they’re doing.”*

A week, a month from now,

we’ll see another why to our why.

So enough with the judging.

Enjoy the  complications.

© Andy Costello, Reflections

*Luke 23:34

January 7, 2020

Thought for Today:

“Everyone wants to understand painting.  Why don’t they try to understand the singing of birds?  People love the night, a flower, everything that surrounds them without trying to understand them.  But painting – that they must understand.”

Pablo Picasso,

Quoted Gerald Brennan,

Thoughts in a Dry Season, 1979

TOE TAPPING

Does God love it when 

people go toe tapping? 

I know I notice toe 
tapping when people are 
just sitting there on the 
subway heading home 
or uptown or downtown or
in church during hymn time. 

How about music makers:  

do they try to build toe 

tapping into their pieces? 

If they do that, I’d like to 

know just how they do that, 

so I can build some bounce  
and joy and toe tapping into 

every place I dance into. 

© Andy Costello, Reflections 2020

January  6, 2020

Thought  for  Today 

“I  always  tell students that it is what you learn  after you know it all that counts.”

Harry S. Truman

DON’T  BOTHER  ME!

Well, I don’t want to say it like that.

But sometimes I just want space.

I just want some time to be alone.

I want to just do nothing but read,

walk, think, pray, and be with myself.

How about you? Are there times

that you too want to be alone, to

have some space – to ponder, to

wonder? Hey Jesus had his garden,

his cave, his 30 years of privacy.

Wait a minute. Saying it that way,
seems too much. I need a minute or
a hour to think this all out. When
things are moving too fast and all are
talking, I simply want to slip slide away.

© Andy Costello, Reflections 2020